How Misinformation About Vaccines is Created?

Do you ever wonder how so much misinformation about vaccines is created?

Somehow, a study about febrile seizures got turned into a headline about deadly seizures! And a call to take COVID vaccines off the childhood schedule even as COVID has lately been a leading cause of death for children.

And just who is responsible for creating it?

Who is Creating All of the Misinformation About Vaccines?

Well, you probably already know who is responsible for creating and spreading most of the misinformation about vaccines we see.

• A Dozen Misguided Influencers Spread Most of the Anti-Vaccination Content on Social Media
• Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
• The Disinformation Dozen: An Exploratory Analysis of Covid-19 Disinformation Proliferation on Twitter
• One Year of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter: Longitudinal Study
• The “Disinformation Dozen” vs. public health
• The “Disinformation Dozen” spreading anti-vaccine messaging on social media
• Will ‘Dr. Disinformation’ Ever Face the Music?
• It’s Not Just the Disinformation Dozen

For all of their talk of being censored and deplatformed, you are probably not too surprised to know that most of these folks are still around.

And of course, one of them, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is running for president!

How Misinformation About Vaccines is Created

To get back on track though, let's see how they create the misinformation they spread.

Note Ben Tapper's post above in which he calls for COVID vaccines to be "taken off the childhood schedule!"

Why?

Tapper wants you to think it is because of claims about the FDA and deadly seizures, but his only evidence is an unlinked pic of a news article from a website in Thailand...

It is very telling that he doesn't link to the actual study that has prompted any of the recent posts about COVID shots and seizures in children.

So what does that study say?

For one thing, the study doesn't say anything about "deadly seizures!"

The study found that young child have a small risk of developing febrile seizures after getting a COVID vaccine.

"Among children aged 2-5 years, the analysis showed a small elevated incidence rate ratio of febrile seizures in the 0-1 days following the mRNA-1273 vaccination."

Evaluation of Febrile Seizure Risk Following Ancestral Monovalent COVID-
19 mRNA Vaccination Among U.S. Children Aged 2-5 Years

Febrile seizures which are not deadly and which they are probably more likely to get after a natural COVID infection. Importantly, some of those kids have prolonged or complex febrile seizures, including febrile status epilepticus, when they get sick with COVID!

Do you see how these folks create propaganda about vaccines to scare you away from getting vaccinated and protected?

NVIC left out that they were talking about febrile seizures in their scary headline and they both left out that the study found that the "absolute risk was small."

Propaganda that then gets laundered across all of their websites and social media accounts to make it seem like whatever they are talking about is really newsworthy.

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